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Sissy Nikolaou (MS ’95, PhD ‘98), PE was elected
governor of the ASCE G-I Board last month. The G-I is a membership
organization, within ASCE, focused on geoprofessionals and the
geo-industry.

Nikolaou is currently a principal in the geotechnical &
tunneling technical excellence center in the New York office of
WSP, an international engineering and design firm with over 37,000
employees. She is a member of the Civil, Structural and
Environmental Engineering Department Advisory Board, and holds
leadership board roles in the Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute and the Applied Technology Council. Nikolaou also
delivered the distinguished alumna speech to the SEAS graduate
student graduating class in May 2017.

ASCE has nine different technical areas to advance the
profession of civil engineering. Each group represents a specific
area of civil engineering. Some examples include the G-I
group, architectural engineering group, environmental and water
resources engineering group and the structural engineering
group.

According to the ASCE G-I’s website, the G-I group is made
up of engineers, students, academics and other professionals who
investigate ways to advance the built environment with an expertise
in the engineering behavior of earth materials.

In addition to role on the ASCE G-I board of governors, Nikolaou
serves on several committees with ASCE, including, the earthquake
engineering and soil dynamics technical committee and the
infrastructure resiliency division.

To learn more about Nikolaou’s status as governor on the
ASCE G-I board, click
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